Mass politicical
murder is carried out through standing armies and police forces —
in other words, the very people to whom the UN wishes to give a
monopoly on firearms

Shortly after Cambodia
fell into the hands of the Khmer Rouge, soldiers were dispatched to the
countryside to disarm the populace. "We are here now to protect you, and
no one has a need for a weapon any more," one survivor of the Cambodian
holocaust recalled in the January 24, 1994 issue of The New Yorker.The
account described how "everyone who had a weapon ... handed over [their]
rifles and pistols and ammunition, which the soldiers tossed on a pile"
and disposed of. In short order the rulers of what R.J. Rummel calls the
"Cambodian Hell State" were stacking skulls in piles as they
slaughtered one-third of the disarmed population.

The new United Nations propaganda film Armed
to the Teeth: The World-Wide Plague of Small Arms proudly depicts UN
"peacekeepers" carrying out the same type of civilian disarmament
that was the overture to the Cambodian holocaust. One UN official is displayed
on screen asking a group of Albanian peasants: "You've delivered all the
arms, now? No more arms in this village?" UN officials, in the company of
army officers and police, are shown conducting a propaganda session for the
village's schoolchildren. Each student is given an anti-gun t-shirt and alecture
about disarmament. As a "symbolic act of disarmament," seized
weapons are stacked in a pile and burned in the local public square.
Symbolically setting collected firearms ablaze — call it the "Bonfire
of the Liberties" — has become a familiar ritual in UN civilian
disarmament campaigns. "On a memorable night in Timbuktu, the flames of
peace consumed 3,000 rifles," intones the film's narrator. In Mozambique,
collected arms are dynamited; elsewhere, "peacekeepers" cut
confiscated weapons into scrap or melt them into slag.

For more than a decade, THE
NEW AMERICAN has repeatedly warned that the UN's oft-repeated intention to
pursue "general and complete disarmament" includes universal civilian
disarmament; Armed to the Teeth validates those warnings in
remarkable detail.

"For its first fifty
years, the United Nations focused its disarmament efforts on addressing the
proliferation of nuclear weapons," observes the narrator. The world body
is now focusing its efforts on what it calls the global "small arms
crisis" — meaning the possession of firearms by civilians. The
propaganda film unambiguously defines "legal" weapons as those
"used by armies and police forces to protect us." Civilian-owned
weapons, by way of contrast, are supposedly "illegitimate" and
"bring insecurity, pain, suffering and devastation."

Only through a global
crackdown on civilian arms ownership and the empowerment of the UN, insists
the narrator, "can genocide as happened in Rwanda be prevented." But
mass political murder is carried out through standing armies and nationalized
police forces — in other words, the very people to whom the UN wishes to
give a monopoly on firearms. The genocidal state in Rwanda occupied a seat on
the UN Security Council, and Kofi Annan — then head of the peacekeeping
division, now secretary-general — prevented UN "peacekeepers" from
taking timely steps to prevent the slaughter.

The video shows American
schoolchildren participating in a UN-approved indoctrination session, where
they are trained to evangelize on behalf of civilian disarmament. "Stop
selling guns," one young boy declares to the interviewer. "Only
policemen should have guns." "I would just stop making guns all of a
sudden and then just have the government prohibit guns from everybody,"
adds a young girl. Part of the indoctrination involves the recitation of a
pledge "never to touch a weapon."

Cultivating an aversive
response to firearms is a prime objective of the UN's global civilian
disarmament campaign. The video repeatedly indulges in the pathetic fallacy
that inanimate objects display human traits by depicting firearms as possessed
of independent, malevolent intent. "Small arms are not fussy about the
company they keep. They can murder indiscriminately," insists the
narrator. "The gun that killed in Africa can do it again in Latin
America, or in Asia .... Humankind is beginning a new millennium under the
sign of the gun. Small arms are like uninvited guests who won't leave. Once
they take over a country, they are virtually impossible to get rid of."

To rid the world of this
supposed pestilence, the UN urges the destruction of "illegal guns and
regulating the production and sale of legal weapons" (remember that
"legal," as defined by the UN, means government-controlled) on a
global basis. New global civilian disarmament protocols will be discussed at
the UN's "Conference on Illicit Trade In Small Arms and Light
Weapons," which will be held in June and July of this year.

Behind the UN's enthusiasm for
civilian disarmament, as practiced in Communist Cambodia and elsewhere, is an
affinity for totalitarian bloodshed — as also practiced in those same
unhappy countries. In their book Murder of a Gentle Land, John Barron
and Anthony Paul recall that when Khmer Rouge official Ieng Sary, who boasted:
"We have cleansed the cities," appeared before the General Assembly,
he was greeted with an enthusiastic ovation.